Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *
Chicago is a city built on several distinct sounds, the echoes of the past at times which reverberate and regurgitate over and over again, a beautiful, vibrant city but one caught arguably in its own musical demise and with only a few choice new names brave enough to try and tear that down.
Ryk Mead & The London Blues Band’s Chicago on the other hand is a place filled with opportunity in which 11 songs offer a fresh almost tantalising sound of innate pleasure and in which, whilst steeped in the Blues, is not overawed by the past association of a genre that has stepped out of its own terminal pre-21st shadow and become a vivacious and almost flamboyant beauty once more.